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A skeptic's counterpoint: https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/07/19/establishment-strikes-back.html https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/07/19/es

A skeptic's counterpoint: https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/07/19/establishment-strikes-back.html https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/07/19/establishm...

sehugg 8y ago
The site you linked: Strategic Culture Foundation, a Moscow think tank run by Yuri Profokiev, a former head of Moscow’s Communist Party and member of the Soviet Politburo.
- mccarthyism2 8y ago
  Still waiting for the evidence behind this growing Russian conspiracy.
  - Gabriel_Martin 8y ago
    Odd how you made this account 8 minutes ago to attempt to discredit this idea
- nutjob2 8y ago
  And happens to be strongly pro-Trump. How curious.
  - BRAlNlAC 8y ago
    Really? this article[1] doesn't seem pro-Trump at all. [1]https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/07/18/stripping-away-local-governmental-powers-global-rising-tide-fascism.html https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/07/18/stripping-...
nutjob2 8y ago
That's not counterpoint, it's just typical right wing propaganda.
- dominotw 8y ago
  why is right full of 'typical' propaganda while left is honest ppl with verifiable facts. seems curious
  - glorkk 8y ago
    The "left" are good at circular quotations. They are also in complete control of Wikipedia, Snopes, and a few other "authoritative" websites.
  - reefoctopus 8y ago
    > He says stories like this work because they fit into existing right-wing conspiracy theories. >"The people wanted to hear this," he says. "So all it took was to write that story. Everything about it was fictional: the town, the people, the sheriff, the FBI guy. And then ... our social media guys kind of go out and do a little dropping it throughout Trump groups and Trump forums and boy it spread like wildfire." >Coler says his writers have tried to write fake news for liberals — but they just never take the bait. https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/11/23/503146770/npr-finds-the-head-of-a-covert-fake-news-operation-in-the-suburbs https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/11/23/50...
  - nutjob2 8y ago
    Becuase it's got nothing to do with left or right, just true or false. The left just seems to value the truth more than the right. That is being vividly illustrated by our current president.
    - dominotw 8y ago
      >it's got nothing to do with left or right > left just seems to value the truth more than the right. huh?
root_axis 8y ago
That is not a "counterpoint" to anything, there is zero mention of bitcoin, blockchain or anything cryptocurrency related within. I think it's pretty clear you're here to push a political agenda.
- patrickg_zill 8y ago
  You can check my karma and how long I've been around, in addition to my comments. Anyone who does this will know that your claim as to why I'm here doesn't hold water.
jcranmer 8y ago
That says nothing about this article, which is basically "lol, I can do trivial financial analysis to strip the anonymity of Bitcoin. Think how much more information government experts at tracking money laundering have."

A skeptic's counterpoint: https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/07/19/establishment-strikes-back.html https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/07/19/establishm...

sehugg 8y ago

The site you linked: Strategic Culture Foundation, a Moscow think tank run by Yuri Profokiev, a former head of Moscow’s Communist Party and member of the Soviet Politburo.

mccarthyism2 8y ago
Still waiting for the evidence behind this growing Russian conspiracy.
- Gabriel_Martin 8y ago
  Odd how you made this account 8 minutes ago to attempt to discredit this idea
nutjob2 8y ago
And happens to be strongly pro-Trump. How curious.
- BRAlNlAC 8y ago
  Really? this article[1] doesn't seem pro-Trump at all. [1]https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/07/18/stripping-away-local-governmental-powers-global-rising-tide-fascism.html https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/07/18/stripping-...

nutjob2 8y ago

That's not counterpoint, it's just typical right wing propaganda.

dominotw 8y ago
why is right full of 'typical' propaganda while left is honest ppl with verifiable facts. seems curious
- glorkk 8y ago
  The "left" are good at circular quotations. They are also in complete control of Wikipedia, Snopes, and a few other "authoritative" websites.
- reefoctopus 8y ago
  > He says stories like this work because they fit into existing right-wing conspiracy theories. >"The people wanted to hear this," he says. "So all it took was to write that story. Everything about it was fictional: the town, the people, the sheriff, the FBI guy. And then ... our social media guys kind of go out and do a little dropping it throughout Trump groups and Trump forums and boy it spread like wildfire." >Coler says his writers have tried to write fake news for liberals — but they just never take the bait. https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/11/23/503146770/npr-finds-the-head-of-a-covert-fake-news-operation-in-the-suburbs https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/11/23/50...
- nutjob2 8y ago
  Becuase it's got nothing to do with left or right, just true or false. The left just seems to value the truth more than the right. That is being vividly illustrated by our current president.
  - dominotw 8y ago
    >it's got nothing to do with left or right > left just seems to value the truth more than the right. huh?

root_axis 8y ago

That is not a "counterpoint" to anything, there is zero mention of bitcoin, blockchain or anything cryptocurrency related within. I think it's pretty clear you're here to push a political agenda.

patrickg_zill 8y ago
You can check my karma and how long I've been around, in addition to my comments. Anyone who does this will know that your claim as to why I'm here doesn't hold water.

jcranmer 8y ago

That says nothing about this article, which is basically "lol, I can do trivial financial analysis to strip the anonymity of Bitcoin. Think how much more information government experts at tracking money laundering have."